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• Havoc8154@mander.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s the same thing, you’re getting caught up on a meaningless distinction.

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  • KuromiGirl04@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Maybe to you it’s meaningless but it isnt to me

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    • Havoc8154@mander.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’m telling you it’s medically meaningless. Decongestants are decongestants. They aren’t ‘cold’ medicines or ‘allergy’ medicines. They act on inflammation in the nose and reduce congestion. How it’s advertised doesn’t make a bit of difference to what the medicine does.

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      • KuromiGirl04@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I still just want an otc allergy med that treats stuffy nose.

        I dont want a cold medicine

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    • jj4211@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s not a subjective thing. Cold medicines treat symptoms, not the disease. Cold and allergies have common symptoms.

      If your concern is that cold medicines don’t work for your allergies, thwn those tend not to work for colds either.

      If the medicine is trying to use phenylephrine in a pill, that doesn’t do anything. You might also want to skip the acetaminophen usually included and you have zero need for that, but not every co of d medicine has that.

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      • KuromiGirl04@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        But I don’t want a cold medicine, I just want an allergy medicine that treats stuff nose!

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• Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Can’t help you with that.

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